GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE MOVIE REVIEW Despite the ‘official’ premiere of the first Gore Verbinski film in eight years being at Beyond Fest on 9/28, the ACTUAL world premiere was at the final secret screening of Fantastic Fest on 9/25. His new film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a dystopian sci-fi […]

BUGONIA MOVIE REVIEW Based on a 2003 South Korean film called Save The Green Planet!, the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos unsurprisingly stars his new muse Emma Stone but it is her co-star Jesse Plemons who steals the show. Bugonia was a secret screening this year and we were here for it (in both a […]

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER MOVIE REVIEW At Fantastic Fest every year they have a series of ‘secret screenings’. These can vary from tiny films you’ve never heard of to premieres of giant films. Way back when, the fest got on the map when they did the premiere of There Will Be Blood at a secret […]

WHEN WE WERE LIVE MOVIE REVIEW In his documentary about Public Access Television in Austin, Texas in the 80s and 90s, director John Spottswood Moore had a LOT of material to sift through. Austin’s station was by far one of the most prolific in the country (second only to NYC, I believe). Let me tell […]

SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE MOVIE REVIEW Actor Jorma Tommila returns to his character in Sisu (no, his name is not Sisu) in a bigger, bloodier, more insane affair, as you would expect to a sequel to Sisu. Road to Revenge has him returning to the part of Finland that he used to live with his […]

THE FORBIDDEN CITY MOVIE REVIEW Genre-fusing sometimes is an awkward affair, ending up with a film that doesn’t know what it is. But sometimes it creates something that feels very new. Sometimes it ends up being epic. Fortunately this is the case for The Forbidden City. The story follows Mei, a girl who along with […]

BEAST OF WAR MOVIE REVIEW When a ship of Australian soldiers goes down in the middle of the ocean on their way to fight in WWII, only a handful survive. They find themselves in a calm, windless sea on a makeshift raft. There’s no water, food, several are seriously injured, and there’s one big and […]

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU MOVIE REVIEW Linda (Rose Byrne) is so very, very tired. She has a young daughter with severe enough of an eating disorder that she needs to be fed by a stomach tube or she will die. Her husband is away for work so she has to do everything […]

OBSESSION MOVIE REVIEW We’ve all been in a position where we cared so very deeply for someone and wished they felt the same for us but felt hopeless to make it happen. Bear (Michael Johnston) probably isn’t hopeless with his feelings for Nikki (Inde Navarrette) being reciprocated but he’ll never know. Because he used a […]

PRIMATE MOVIE REVIEW Lucy is coming home from college to stay with her family in their implausibly awesome home on a cliff in Hawaii. Her two friends Kate and Hannah are coming as well but Hannah is in for a big surprise: there’s another member of the family they didn’t tell her about: a chimpanzee […]